February 4, at 4:00 pm in the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer Street

Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Center, Leiden, will present the second lecture in a series on "Contemporary Africa: Writing Its History." His talk is titled "Histories of Invisible Africa." This series is sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of History, the Wayland Collegium, the Africa Group of the Watson Institute, the Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund and a Saloman Grant from the Dean of the College.

April 17 at 5:30pm, MacMillan Reading Room in The John Carter Brown Library.

Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Department of History, UCLA) will present the inaugural "Gulbenkian-Vasco da Gama Lecture on Portugal and the Early Modern World." The title of his talk is "Disturbing Old Bones: Old and New Myths about Vasco da Gama." The lecture will take place on the occasion of the opening of the book exhibition "Portugal and the European Renaissance" in The John Carter Brown Library. This event is jointly organized by the Department of History and the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and it is sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, with additional sponsorship from The John Carter Brown Library and the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown.